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Frankee Lyons

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About

Frankee Lyons is a Ph.D. Candidate in Modern Eastern European history working with Małgorzata Fidelis and Keely Stauter-Halsted. Her project examines perceptions of Jewish belonging and participation in early communist state-building in Poland, focusing on the post-Stalinist Thaw and “Gomułka aliyah” period (1954-1960).

During the 2019-2020 academic year, Lyons is completing dissertation research in Warsaw, Poland under Fulbright and Title VIII grants. In past years, she has completed intensive Polish language training with funding from the Title VIII Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union. In 2018, Lyons was an Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellow.

Selected Grants

U.S. Department of State, IIE Fulbright U.S. Student Research Grant, Student

Presenter, Loyola History Graduate Student Conference, Loyola University Chicago, Illinois, November 3, 2018, “Jewish Youth at the Fifth World Festival of Youth and Students”

Participant, Russian and East European Jewish Cultures Junior Scholars Workshop , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, May 21-22, 2018, “Jewish Youth at the Fifth World Festival of Youth and Students"

Research Currently in Progress

Modern Eastern Europe; history of Poland; Jewish history; history of communism; post-war and Cold War Europe; migration, exile, diaspora.